Increase Your Website’s Google Rank

If you are looking to increase your Google rank, or simply push your website higher in Google’s search results – there is a simple (and sometimes frustrating) solution: Play nice with Google. If you can get Google on your side, you’ve won most of the battle. Google’s criteria for a “good” website is the first big step in pushing your website higher up those...
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Short URL’s Vs. long URL’s

When it comes to SEO, one of the main things to consider is what people will be typing. Whether that be in the address bar or the search bar. Search engines, like Google, do look at the way in which the URL is formed. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and gives an unique address for a given web page. When it comes to SEO, matching up the keywords here becomes essential. Assuming that you...
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Pingdom

Last week we talked about how important it is to keep the loading speeds for a website as low as possible – we talked about various methods of ensuring your site loads quickly and easily – but there is one thing we didn’t look at – how to analyse your site to begin with. If you are building, or have built, a website – sometimes your own loading time can be deceptive....
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Keep Website Loading Speeds Low

One very important aspect of building a website is to ensure that the loading times are as little as possible. Although a significant population of Internet users have access to Broadband connection speeds, even that can at times be slow. So ensuring that the loading time of your website is short can help maintain people’s attention. Longer loading times may result in lost visitors, too...
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Onsite Optimisation

On-site optimisation used to be extremely simple and it still generally is but thanks to Google’s Panda algorithm update, it’s becoming more important to get it right now and Panda means that even a couple of pages on your site that are penalised by Panda may result in a domain-wide penalty across the whole of your website.
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What’s not important for SEO?

While analysing and adapting your website for SEO, it’s important to realise the things that are worth investing time and the things that aren’t. One of the main SEO-themed elements that you can pretty much ignore are Meta Keywords Meta Keywords Google have said that they ignore these so I wouldn’t bother spending time on these at all. Other things to consider In closing our...
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